Trillium
| Country | Canada |
| Ship Class | Flower-class Corvette |
| Hull Number | K172 |
| Builder | Canadian Vickers Limited, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Laid Down | 20 Feb 1940 |
| Launched | 26 Jun 1940 |
| Commissioned | 31 Oct 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 25 Jun 1945 |
| Displacement | 940 tons standard |
| Length | 205 feet |
| Beam | 33 feet |
| Draft | 12 feet |
| Machinery | Two fire tube Scotch boilers, one 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, one shaft |
| Speed | 16 knots |
| Range | 3,500nm at 12 knots |
| Crew | 85 |
| Armament | 1x101.6mm BL 4in Mk.IX gun, 2x2x .50cal machine guns, 2x2x .303cal Lewis machine guns, 2x Mk.II depth charge throwers, 40x depth charges on 2 rails |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseCorvette Trillium was ordered by the British Royal Navy for use by the Royal Canadian Navy. She entered service in 1940. She was decommissioned from the Royal Canadian Navy in Jun 1945 after the end of the European War and was transferred back to her original owner, the United Kingdom. She escorted 44 convoys between Newfoundland; Halifax, Canada; Iceland; and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, with the final one arriving in Northern Ireland on 6 Jun 1945. She was sold into the civilian market after the German surrender. She operated under the name of Olympic Runner in 1950, Otori Maru No. 10 starting in 1956, and Kyo Maru No. 16 starting in 1959. She was in service through the 1970s.
ww2dbaseSource: uboat.net
Last Major Revision: Mar 2012
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Trillium Operational Timeline
| 20 Jan 1940 | Corvette Trillium was ordered. |
| 20 Feb 1940 | The keel for corvette Trillium was laid down. |
| 26 Jun 1940 | Corvette Trillium was launched. |
| 31 Oct 1940 | HMCS Trillium was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander Ronald Fraser Harris in command. |
| 21 Apr 1941 | HMCS Trillium rescued 24 survivors of the British merchant ship Empire Endurance, which was sunk between Iceland and Ireland on the previous day by German submarine U-73. |
| 15 Nov 1941 | Lieutenant Henry Drummond Campsie was named the commanding officer of HMCS Trillium. |
| 19 Dec 1941 | Lieutenant George Edward Gaudreau was named the commanding officer of HMCS Trillium. |
| 26 Feb 1942 | Lieutenant Philip Cabell Evans was named the commanding officer of HMCS Trillium. |
| 22 Feb 1943 | German submarine U-606 sank British merchant ship Empire Redshank in the North Atlantic; 47 survivors were picked up by HMCS Trillium. |
| 23 Feb 1943 | HMCS Trillium rescued 58 survivors of US merchant ship Chattanooga City and 53 survivors of US merchant ship Expositor, both of which were sunk by German submarine U-606 in the North Atlantic on the previous day. |
| 25 Mar 1943 | Lieutenant Ralph Marcus Wallace was named the commanding officer of HMCS Trillium. |
| 18 Apr 1943 | Lieutenant Philip Cabell Evans was named the commanding officer of HMCS Trillium. |
| 10 Jun 1943 | The work to extend HMCS Trillium's forecastle at Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States was completed. |
| 22 May 1944 | Lieutenant Kenneth Elliot Meredith was named the commanding officer of HMCS Trillium. |
| 25 Jun 1945 | HMCS Trillium was decommissioned from service. |
| 27 Jun 1945 | HMCS Trillium was transferred to the British Royal Navy. |
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Visitor Submitted Comments
15 Jun 2020 04:09:02 PM
My father John Edward (Jack)Jenner also served on the Trillium as a radio man. I am interested in finding a list of all the convoys they escorted and U-boat battles during the war and any crew lists showing him onboard. I'll have to check out The Hamilton Spectator archives for that article.
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George Patton, 31 May 1944
22 Nov 2012 06:47:37 PM
My father, John Franklin Campbell, had served on the Trillium as signalman. On one of his many voyages, he was involved with the rescue of many men after 3 ships were torpedoed off of the east coast in February 1943. I still have an old yellowed picture cut out from The Hamilton Spectator newspaper that my grandmother had saved.